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Guided Notes, Section 1-1
Earth’s Interior, pp. 6 to 13
1. What do you observe happening in Figure 1? How does this explain the statement “I can watch the
island of Hawaii grow.”?
2. What is the deepest that humans have reached in the Earth? Where did this occur?
3.
4. Complete the table below to describe 2 ways in which scientists learn about the inside of the Earth.
Direct/Indirect
What can we learn from the
Type of Evidence
Description
Evidence
evidence?
Direct Evidence
Indirect Evidence
5. What happens to temperature as you get deeper in the Earth?
6. Why?
7. What happens to pressure as you get deeper in the Earth?
8. Why?
9. Examine Figure 4. How is the water in the swimming pool similar to Earth’s interior? How is it different?
10. Complete the table below to describe the 3 layers of the Earth.
What is it
Layer
Thickness
made of?
CRUST
Oceanic
Crust
Continental
Solid, Liquid,
or Gas?
Lithosphere
MANTLE
Asthenosphere
Lower Mantle
OUTER CORE
INNER CORE
11. Which of the 4 layers is the thickest?
12. Which layer can “bend like plastic” even though it is a solid?
13. What is the main difference between the outer core and the inner core?
14. What questions do you have about the Earth’s interior?
Additional
Notes